# Quote — Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine

> During the Cold War, widespread alcoholism was always seen in the West as evidence that life under Communism was so dismal that Russians needed large quantities of vodka to get through the day. Under capitalism, however, Russians drinks more than twice as much alcohol as they used to - and they are reaching for harder painkillers as well. (p238)

- Author: [Naomi Klein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-klein.md)
- Book: [The Shock Doctrine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-klein/the-shock-doctrine.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-klein/the-shock-doctrine/during-the-cold

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> It was this wave of reforms that turned China into the sweatshop of the world, the preferred location for contract factories for virtually every multinational on the planet. No country offered more lucrative conditions than China: low taxes and tariffs, corruptible officials and, most of all, a plentiful low-wage workforce that, for many years, would be unwilling to risk demanding decent salaries or the most basic workplace protections for fear of the most violent reprisals. (p190)

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> When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty. (p409)

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> ...extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. In a way, it had happened already to the antiwar movement.

p. 327 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-klein/the-shock-doctrine/extreme-violence-has.md)